Left Angle Cross

Left Angle Cross of Defiance 2

1/2 | 4/49

This cross brings four currents together. The first, and the one carrying most weight, is a wellspring of original expression: the urge to bring something into the world that is unmistakably yours, arriving on its own rhythm and never on a schedule. The second is a quiet inner compass, a knowing about which way is right that does not push and cannot really explain itself. The third is a mind that keeps generating answers, formulas that turn up as possibilities and wait to be tested against real experience. The fourth is the power of principle, the ability to let people close or keep them at a distance depending on whether their values genuinely sit right with yours.

Atlas Plate1/2 | 4/49
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Left Angle Cross of Defiance 2 highlighted: 1, 2, 4 and 49 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Human Design BodyGraph with the four gates of the Left Angle Cross of Defiance 2 highlighted: 1, 2, 4 and 49
Angle
Left Angle
Gates
1/2 | 4/49
Personality Sun
Gate 1
Personality Earth
Gate 2
Design Sun
Gate 4
Design Earth
Gate 49

New to incarnation crosses? Read What Is an Incarnation Cross for how the four gates are calculated, what the three angles mean and how a cross is lived.

With its Personality Sun in Gate 1, this cross sits under Hades, the first Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Mutation. Read The Sixteen Godheads for what that means.

Notice how these four move as one rhythm. Your expression draws people in, and attention brings interference with it: advice, expectation, the quiet pressure to make what you make a little more like everyone else's. Something in you refuses, and refuses fiercely. Protecting your difference is not vanity here, it is how the creativity survives at all. This is also a life fulfilled through other people, so the point is never only your own uniqueness. Your purpose is worked out in relationship. By holding the line on what makes you different, you make it safe for the people around you to be different too.

None of this arrives all at once. A cross like this is a direction rather than a job description, and it will not hand over its whole meaning in a season. The way you live it well is simple to name and takes practice to trust: follow your Strategy and your Authority, let your feelings settle before you accept or reject anyone, and wait for your own timing rather than forcing expression out on demand. Do that, and the difference you have guarded so carefully becomes the very thing people value most in you.

Questions People Ask

What are the four gates of the Left Angle Cross of Defiance 2?

Personality Sun in Gate 1, Personality Earth in Gate 2, Design Sun in Gate 4 and Design Earth in Gate 49, written 1/2 | 4/49.

Which profiles have a Left Angle cross?

Left Angle crosses belong to the 5/1, 5/2, 6/2 and 6/3 profiles. The angle follows from your profile.

Which Face of the Godhead is the Left Angle Cross of Defiance 2 under?

With its Personality Sun in Gate 1, it sits under Hades, the first Face of the Godhead, in the Quarter of Mutation.

How do I find my incarnation cross?

Generate your free chart at humandesign.so/chart from your birth date, time and place. It names your cross and shows its four gates, taken from the Sun and Earth at birth and about three months before.

Connected in the BodyGraph

The Four Gates of This Incarnation Cross

The four gates

Profiles with a Left Angle cross

The other Defiance crosses

2 crosses share this name and theme; the numeral tells them apart, and each is built from a different set of four gates.

Created by Peter Low, Human Design Practitioner. Part of the Human Design atlas.